Pete Lee

Pete Lee is a State Senator representing District 11 in the U.S. state of Colorado. He was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2010 as a Democrat representing House District 18, located in El Paso County and includes central Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs. He was recently elected in 2018 to the Colorado State Senate.

Who is Senator Pete Lee?

Pete Lee is the State Senator for Colorado District 11 and the former representative for House District 18. He has been a lawyer, a small business owner, and an executive at a NYSE listed corporation. He and his wife Lynn have lived in the Colorado Springs area for 40 years.

He has sponsored legislation to transform our criminal justice system from one of retribution to one of restoration and rehabilitation; to grow our economy and support small business workforce development; and to expand access to capital in small stock offerings.

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From the Daily Kos: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/28/1698198/-Youth-Detention-in-Colorado-A-Crisis-with-a-Crusader-State-Rep-Pete-Lee There are many reasons America’s criminal justice system is not just, but the state of Youth Detention, particularly in Colorado, is in a full-blown crisis. There has been an increasing “culture of violence” at the Colorado Division of Youth Corrections that is not only unsafe for the residents and staff, it is highly detrimental to the children (yes, […]

Last year, 53 Colorado legislators co-sponsored a Division of Youth Corrections Reform bill, HB17-1329. It was inspired by Bound and Broken, the shocking report which described brutal abuse and mistreatment of already traumatized youth confined at DYS. It followed revelations about fights, assaults, use of protracted and illegal solitary confinement as well as riots in […]

Please enjoy this article from the Colorado Springs Business Journal that I penned about this challenging yet productive 2017 legislative session. http://www.csbj.com/2017/06/27/legislative-service-honor/

This article by Adrian Stanley of the Colorado Springs Independent is a great summation of key criminal justice reform bills throughout my tenure and why there is still so much work left to be done. https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/how-rep-pete-lee-is-creating-a-kinder-juster-criminal-justice-system-in-colorado/Content?oid=6137711